Dictionary of Welsh Biography

HUW ap RHYS WYN (fl. c. 1550), poet Member of the landed family of Mysoglen, Llangeinwen, Anglesey; husband of Catherine, daughter of Lewys ab Owain ap Meurig of Y Frondeg, Llangaffo. Some of his poems survive in manuscripts, and these include a cywydd addressed to Thomas Glyn, Glynllifon, requesting a fishing boat from him, a cywydd to old age, and a more unusual kind of cywydd - an elegy on the death of his favourite hound
HUW CORNWY (fl. 1580-1596), bard possibly a native of Llanfair-yng-nghornwy, Anglesey. He wrote elegies upon members of the Anglesey families of Meyrick of Bodorgan and Rhydderch of Myfyrian, and on Rhys ap Thomas. He also engaged in a bardic controversy with Rhydderch ap Rhisiart of Myfyrian.
HUW PENNANT (fl. c. 1565-1619), poet , Brynkir, Cefnamwlch, Cefnllanfair, Clenennau, Corsygedol, Glynllifon, Llyweni, Madryn, Myfyrian, Mysoglen, Penrhyn, Plas Du in Eifionydd, Plas Newydd in Anglesey, Porthamel, Rhiwedog, Rhiwlas and Ystumcegid. The following are some of the manuscripts containing his poetry: Brogyntyn MSS. 3, 6; Cwrtmawr MS 454B; Glyn Davies MS. 2 (N.L.W.); Llanstephan MS 123, Llanstephan MS 124, Llanstephan MS 125; NLW MS
HUW, THOMAS (fl. c. 1574-1606), poet a native apparently of North Wales. Some examples of his work, in strict metres, are preserved in manuscript, including poems of praise to Harri Wyn of Anglesey and Siôn Wyn Amhorys (Brogyntyn MS. 6 (157b); Llanstephan MS 11 (21), an elegy to Richard Lloyd of Llannerch Fawr in Llŷn (Llanstephan MS 123 (114)), a poem seeking reconciliation with youth (NLW MS 783B (128)), another in reply to a poem
HUWS, MORIEN MON (Morien Môn; 1856 - 1932), Nonconformist minister and poet Born at Amlwch, Anglesey, 10 August 1856, he was educated at Rhos-y-bol school in that county when Sir John Rhys was its headmaster. He began to preach when he was seventeen; he also, in early youth, began to win prizes in eisteddfodau. He emigrated to the U.S.A. in 1880, became a member of the Congregational Association in Oneida County, New York State, and pastor of Peniel church, Remsen, in
HYWEL ab OWAIN GWYNEDD (d. 1170), soldier and poet against Henry II. In 1159 he accompanied a Norman force from Carmarthen against the lord Rhys, then in revolt against Henry II. This move was probably prompted by Owain Gwynedd's desire to keep on good terms with the Crown. We hear little more of Hywel until his death in battle against his half-brothers near Pentraeth, Anglesey (1170), in the strife that followed the death of Owain Gwynedd. Hywel was
HYWEL ap GRUFFYDD ap IORWERTH (fl. c. 1300-1340) Register, i, 145n; Dineley, Beaufort Progress, cxci; E. Donovan, South Wales, ii, 188-9; Dwnn, ii, 16n). The balance of probability is in favour of the descent from Hwfa ap Cynddelw, who would appear to have settled in Anglesey c. 1200 (Transactions of the Anglesey Antiquarian Society and Field Club, 1951, ii). His descendants, including those of Hywel 'y Pedolau,' are found in Anglesey and
HYWEL ap RHODRI MOLWYNOG (d. 825), king of Gwynedd A great-grandson of Cadwaladr (died 664), and the last king in Anglesey of the line of Cunedda. The blood of Cunedda was transmitted, on Hywel's death, to a new royal house through his niece, Ethyllt (grandmother of Rhodri the Great), daughter of his brother, Cynan (died 816), with whom he had for long contested Anglesey.
HYWEL CILAN (fl. c. the end of the 15th century), poet Presaddfed, Llwydiarth (Anglesey), Deuddwr, Rhug, Moelyrch, and Rhiwlas.
HYWEL YSTORM (or YSTORYN) (fl. first half of the 14th century), clerwr or composer of lampoons these verses are his, he sang his lampoons to various men in North Wales from Anglesey to Maelor, and to others in Glamorganshire.
IEUAN DEULWYN (fl. c. 1460), poet Llwyd ap Gwilym of Castell Hywel, Llywelyn ap Dafydd ab Einion of Llanllawddog, and his family, Siôn ap Dafydd of Llys Newydd, and John Lewys and his father of Prysaddfed in Anglesey. He composed religious and love poetry, and also one poem of controversy, or ymryson, addressed to Bedo Brwynllys; Ieuan was himself a keen Yorkist, and he accused Bedo of being hypocritical in this matter. An elegy
IEUAN GETHIN ap IEUAN ap LLEISION (fl. c. 1450) Baglan, poet and gentleman Owain Glyndwr, his escape to Anglesey, and his return from there on payment of a fine, is fictitious.

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